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Here is a quick recap of part one before I delve into the gorgeousness that is part two of ‘All Hell Breaks Loose’.

Something big and bad is coming, and Sammy gets snatched from a diner. He turns up in a deserted town with some of the other “special” children (including Ava who has gone bad). The Yellow-Eyed demon tells Sam that only one can leave and it is a supernatural flavored hybrid of Survivor and American Idol. Dean teams up with the wonderful Bobby to search for Sam, but on his way finds that the Road House is toast. Dean and Bobby turn up just as GI Jake stabs Sam in the back. Dean is cradling Sammy and it does not look good.

Part two opens with a important recapping montage to ‘Wayward Son’ and I feel like I might start to cry. Sam is very much dead, laid out and Dean is very much dark and drinking. Bobby is trying to get Dean to move on and help with the fight but Dean is much over everything. He has failed his overall mission which is to protect Sam.

Dean heads to a crossroad, summons the demon from earlier in the season and starts negotiating. It does not go well; Dean gets a year but Sam back and it nicely mirrors last seasons sacrifice that John made for Dean. I get the impression that Dean would very much like Sam the Zombie to stay low for a while, this one is going to be hard to explain to Bobby. but, of course newly risen Sam is eager to get back on with the fight and they head to Bobby’s junkyard. Bobby’s look to Dean said it all “What have you done and WHY does Sammy have a pulse again”. Soon it is party time at Bobby’s as Ellen turns up… of course Bobby being the genial host serves her a shot of holy water just in case.

It would appear that all roads point to Wyoming, frontier churches, to iron railway lines and to something being trapped at the center. Jake is on his way there and the gang are hot on his heels, except Jake has been learning all manner of new Jedi mind tricks and is able to open the crypt (with the very special Yellow-Eyed Demon killing gun). All hell literary breaks loose from the crypt. Bobby and Ellen struggle to shut the gates of hell, whilst the YED congratulates Sammy on being back in rotation. It does not look good for the Winchester brothers until spirit John turns up to distract YED leaving Dean to avenge his mother’s death. WOW! It was perfect. I loved that John did not speak but had a moment with Dean and reassured him that he had done the right thing.

The big questions that we are left with:

Is Sammy Sammy? Or has something a bit darker come back?
Will we see John again?
Are our favorite brothers going to be able to get Dean out of his pact with the demon?
What the hell escaped from the crypt before they were able to shut it and are they going to be spending season three hunting them all down?

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